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Laura Reed, visiting lecturer in political science, will speak on nuclear disarmament on Monday, Dec. 5 at 12:15 p.m. in 620 Thompson as part of the annual faculty colloquium at the School of Public Policy (SPP).
Reed will draw on her expertise in U.S. national security policy and nuclear...

The UMass Amherst Symphony Orchestra will present its final concert of the fall semester, titled “Double Bill,” on Sunday, Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall.
The program features two distinguished members of the music faculty. Trumpeter Eric Berlin will perform...

Once again, seven UMass Amherst faculty members are among “the world’s leading scientific minds,” whose publications are among the most influential in their fields, according to a survey by leading multinational media and information firm Thomson Reuters.

Four faculty members of the department of theater will read from their recently published works at a book launch party on Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 6 p.m. at Amherst Books, 8 Main St., Amherst.
Megan Lewis
Lewis has two books out this fall: “Performing Whitely in the Postcolony: Afrikaners in...

Biologist Duncan Irschick will present the second 2016-17 Distinguished Faculty Lecture at UMass Amherst on Dec. 6, examining nature as an inspiration for solutions to some of our most intransigent problems.

Korina Jocson, associate professor in the College of Education at UMass Amherst, has been named by the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program as Visiting Research Chair of Human Rights and Social Justice at the University of Ottawa for 2016-17.

Biostatistician Nicholas Reich at UMass Amherst, one of the leading researchers in the nation developing prediction models for infectious diseases such as influenza and dengue fever, recently received grants totaling more than $2 million to create better prediction methods for infectious disease worldwide.

The Golf Course Superintendent Association of America has named Patricia Vittum, associate dean of the Stockbridge School of Agriculture at UMass Amherst, a 2017 recipient of its Col. John Morley Distinguished Service Award, the first woman to receive it in the organization’s history.

Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management, received the inaugural Distinguished Service Award from the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) at the society’s annual meeting in Nashville,...

Alan K. Lego, 79, of Orange, a retired maintenance supervisor in the Physical Plant, died Nov. 28.
Born July 8, 1937, in Worcester, he moved to Shutesbury in 1945 and graduated from New Salem Academy. Following high school, he enlisted in the Navy and served aboard the USS Eldorado.
He...